Anne Lyle, criada en la tierra de Robin Hood, se sintió fascinada por la historia inglesa, el folclore y los héroes espadachines. Aunque los estudios sensatos tuvieron prioridad inicialmente, su pasión por Sherwood Forest persistió claramente. Ahora dedica sus horas de vigilia a la creación de ficción fantástica, poblada por espadachines audaces y espías astutos, ambientada en pasados o mundos paralelos imaginados con riqueza. Lyle aborda las reseñas con ojo crítico, reservando los elogios más altos para la narración verdaderamente excepcional.
When Tudor explorers returned from the New World, they brought back a name out of half-forgotten Viking legend: skraylings. Red-sailed ships followed in the explorers' wake, bringing Native American goods--and a skrayling ambassador-- to London. But what do these seemingly magical beings really want in Elizabeth I's capital?
Elizabethan spy Mal Catlyn has everything he ever wanted—his twin brother Sandy restored to health, his family estate reclaimed and a son to inherit it—but his work isn’t over yet. The guisers’ leader, Jathekkil, has reincarnated as the young Prince Henry Tudor, giving Mal a chance to eliminate his enemies whilst they are at their weakest.With Sandy’s help Mal learns to harness his own magic in the fight against the renegade skraylings, but it may be too late to save England. Schemes set in motion decades ago are at last coming to fruition, and the barrier between the dreamlands and the waking world is wearing thin…